Does the file system on the desktop drive have enough space and does it support files larger than 4GB? ext2 will not support a 34GB file. ext3 will. You might have to break the image into segments using the split option.

All seems to be going just fine the netcat connection is made and dcfldd is displaying its progress.
However, at block 98513, I get an error from dcfldd saying:

error:/dev/sda1 input output error

and the whole process stops.

I tried:
$ dcfldd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/null conv=noerror,sync

and it processed the entire 34gb without an error.

Any suggestions would be appreciated for how to get this drive cloned.

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